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Overview

Ian A. Kane is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, Pollution, Geophysics, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

Their work addresses several main topics including Geological formations and processes, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Microplastics and Plastic Pollution, Recycling and Waste Management Techniques, Geological and Geophysical Studies, earthquake and tectonic studies, and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Ian A. Kane include Euan Soutter, David M. Hodgson, Michael Clare, Stephen S. Flint, and Miquel Poyatos-Moré. These collaborations have contributed to their research output across various geological and environmental science topics.

Common publication venues for their work are Sedimentology, Sedimentologika, Geology, Frontiers in Earth Science, and the Journal of Sedimentary Research. These journals frequently publish research related to sedimentary processes and earth sciences.

Recent papers by Ian A. Kane include:

  • Seafloor microplastic hotspots controlled by deep-sea circulation, 2020, Science
  • Transport and Burial of Microplastics in Deep-Marine Sediments by Turbidity Currents, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Learning from natural sediments to tackle microplastics challenges: A multidisciplinary perspective, 2022, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Hybrid turbidite-drift channel complexes: An integrated multiscale model, 2020, Geology
  • Leaving a plastic legacy: Current and future scenarios for mismanaged plastic waste in rivers, 2023, The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • Seafloor microplastic hotspots controlled by deep-sea circulation.

    Ian A. Kane;Michael A. Clare;Elda Miramontes;Roy Wogelius

  • Dispersion, Accumulation, and the Ultimate Fate of Microplastics in Deep-Marine Environments: A Review and Future Directions

    Ian A. Kane;Michael Andrew Clare

  • Transport and Burial of Microplastics in Deep-Marine Sediments by Turbidity Currents

    Florian Pohl;Joris T. Eggenhuisen;Ian A. Kane;Michael A. Clare

  • Sedimentological criteria to differentiate submarine channel levee subenvironments: Exhumed examples from the Rosario Fm. (Upper Cretaceous) of Baja California, Mexico, and the Fort Brown Fm. (Permian), Karoo Basin, S. Africa

    Ian A. Kane;David M. Hodgson

  • Anatomy of a submarine channel-levee : An example from Upper Cretaceous slope sediments, Rosario Formation, Baja California, Mexico

    Ian A. Kane;Benjamin C. Kneller;Mason Dykstra;Ahmed Kassem

  • Submarine transitional flow deposits in the Paleogene Gulf of Mexico

    Ian A. Kane;Anna S.M. Pontén

  • Frontal and lateral submarine lobe fringes: Comparing sedimentary facies, architecture and flow processes

    Yvonne T. Spychala;David M. Hodgson;Amandine Prélat;Ian A. Kane

  • The stratigraphic record and processes of turbidity current transformation across deep-marine lobes

    Ian A. Kane;Anna S. M. Pontén;Brita Vangdal;Joris T. Eggenhuisen

  • Genesis and character of thin-bedded turbidites associated with submarine channels

    Larissa A.S. Hansen;Richard H.T. Callow;Ian A. Kane;Fabiano Gamberi

  • Controls on sinuosity evolution within submarine channels

    Ian A. Kane;William D. McCaffrey;Jeff Peakall

  • Submarine channel levee shape and sediment waves from physical experiments

    Ian A. Kane;William D. McCaffrey;Jeffrey Peakall;Benjamin Charles Kneller

  • Time-Transgressive Confinement On the Slope and the Progradation of Basin-Floor Fans: Implications For the Sequence Stratigraphy of Deep-Water Deposits

    David M. Hodgson;Ian A. Kane;Ian A. Kane;Stephen S. Flint;Rufus L. Brunt

  • Hybrid turbidite-drift channel complexes: An integrated multiscale model

    A. Fuhrmann;I.A. Kane;M.A. Clare;R.A. Ferguson

  • Architecture of a coarse-grained channel-levee system: the Rosario Formation, Baja California, Mexico

    Ian A. Kane;Mason L. Dykstra;Benjamin Charles Kneller;Sacha Tremblay

  • Hybrid event beds dominated by transitional-flow facies: Character, distribution and significance in the Maastrichtian Springar Formation, north-west Vøring Basin, Norwegian Sea.

    Sarah J. Southern;Ian A. Kane;Michał J. Warchoł;Kristin W. Porten

  • Submarine channel evolution, terrace development, and preservation of intra-channel thin-bedded turbidites: Mahin and Avon channels, offshore Nigeria

    Larissa Hansen;Michal Janocko;Ian Kane;Benjamin C. Kneller

  • Global (latitudinal) variation in submarine channel sinuosity

    Jeff Peakall;Mathew G. Wells;Remo Cossu;Ian A. Kane

  • Spatial variability in depositional reservoir quality of deep-water channel-fill and lobe deposits

    Daniel Bell;Ian A. Kane;Anna S.M. Pontén;Stephen S. Flint

  • The effect of clay type on the properties of cohesive sediment gravity flows and their deposits

    Megan L. Baker;Jaco H. Baas;Jonathan Malarkey;Ricardo Silva Jacinto

  • Submarine channel response to intrabasinal tectonics: The influence of lateral tilt

    Ian A. Kane;Vicky Catterall;William D. McCaffrey;Ole J. Martinsen

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. Hodgson
David M. Hodgson University of Leeds
William D. McCaffrey
William D. McCaffrey University of Leeds
Mads Huuse
Mads Huuse University of Manchester
Stephen S. Flint
Stephen S. Flint University of Manchester
Michael A. Clare
Michael A. Clare Natural Environment Research Council
Christopher A.-L. Jackson
Christopher A.-L. Jackson Imperial College London
Jeff Peakall
Jeff Peakall University of Leeds
Ole J. Martinsen
Ole J. Martinsen Equinor (Norway)
Jaco H. Baas
Jaco H. Baas Bangor University
Paul B. Wignall
Paul B. Wignall University of Leeds

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